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NRDC Legal Fund Deadline: Midnight Tomorrow

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Dear NRDC Activist,

Air choked with toxic factory smoke. Rivers on fire. Beaches thick with oil.

That's where dirty, polluting industries want to take us: back to a lawless time of environmental devastation.

But we're not going back.

We're raising $100,000 for the NRDC Legal Fund, and until midnight tomorrow, ALL gifts will be 2X matched to help us wage scores of courtroom battles to stop polluters from steamrolling 50+ years of environmental progress in America. Make your MATCHED $5 gift before it's too late!

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Trump stacked our federal courts with hundreds of judges, and now the same dirty industries that championed Trump's anti-environment agenda are looking to pile up court decisions that will give them free rein to plunder and pollute.

If our bedrock environmental laws are dismantled, the climate crisis will escalate more quickly and dramatically than we ever imagined. We'll all suffer the consequences for decades to come — but low-income communities and communities of color will disproportionately bear the brunt.

Every dollar you give before midnight tomorrow will help ensure that NRDC's legal team can respond swiftly and effectively to the coming wave of polluter-driven courtroom attacks.

You'll be sending America's very best environmental litigators to court and helping to ensure they can stay in court for as long as it takes.

Polluters are betting that Trump's appointments to the federal judiciary will turn many of our courtroom fights into uphill battles. I have no doubt we can still win our share of them — in fact we've secured a nearly 90% win-rate in court cases against the Trump administration that have been resolved.

But in 2023 and beyond, we must be prepared to fight with more skill and tenacity than ever before — and across many more fronts simultaneously.

Donate to the NRDC Legal Fund before midnight tomorrow and your gift will be MATCHED, $1-for-$1, to help defend our environment in court. Help us raise the $100,000 we need to fund the critical legal battles ahead before the deadline. Even just $5 helps.

Sincerely,
Mitch
Mitch Bernard
Chief Counsel, NRDC
Mitch

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Who is the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)?

Founded in 1970, NRDC combines the expertise of some 700 scientists, lawyers, and advocates with the power of more than 3 million members and online activists to confront our planet's most pressing problems.

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Your donation powers NRDC's team of lawyers, scientists, and campaigners who are fighting in and out of court to protect our environment.

NRDC knows how to use the courts to uphold the law and will do it whenever necessary — no matter who is president.

NRDC's renowned team of environmental litigators filed more than 150 lawsuits against the Trump Administration's unlawful actions. Of the cases that have been preliminarily or finally resolved, NRDC has scored victories in nearly 90 percent so far!

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After Trump packed federal courts, including the Supreme Court, everything is on the table: clean air, clean water, imperiled wildlife, and our one remaining chance to avert a complete climate catastrophe.

America's biggest polluters are poised to launch a barrage of attacks aimed squarely at taking down the very pillars of environmental protection.

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